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Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. Spencer Bachus | top
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In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. Spencer Bachus | top
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Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. Spencer Bachus | top
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Henry Ward Beecher | top
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But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear. Craig Benson | top
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I do not support gambling in this state. Craig Benson | top
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce | top
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We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them. Donald L. Carcieri | top
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. William Cobbett | top
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No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. Thomas R. Dewar | top
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There is no gambling like politics. Benjamin Disraeli | top
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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. Frederic William Farrar | top
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The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. Tom Harkin | top
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I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle. Mitch Hedberg | top
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. Pope John XXIII | top
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My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson | top
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Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. Wilson Mizner | top
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. Barack Obama | top
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Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. George Raft | top
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Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. Richard Roeper | top
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. Omar Sharif | top
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You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. George Steinbrenner | top
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. Fisher Stevens | top
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night. Fisher Stevens | top
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Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. Esther Williams | top
